Author Archives: Steve Stark

In today’s post I want to share how I almost quit football. I learned a very valuable lesson in my first year of organized football. That lesson was, “Never quit because it’s too hard.” I just read an article about how 70% of kids quit sports by the age of 13. There are many reasons…

It was a typical 7th-grade basketball practice at Stephen Mack Middle School in the winter of 1986. At the end of practice, Coach Evans lined us up on the end line to run ladder sprints. (Ladders were the bane of our existence in 7th-grade basketball.) I was a big kid and a little overweight so…

Last week I had a chance to go to the Wisconsin Football Coaches Clinic and talk to coaches about offensive line play. It’s always great to network and talk football with other coaches. Coach Glenn and I had a chance to speak to quite a few college coaches and we heard many voicing the same…

Why is core strength important for your athlete? First we need to explain what we mean by “core muscles”. There are varying definitions but without going all fitness geek on you let’s see if we can simplify. The “core” consists of all the muscles form the armpit to the hip bone including both the front and…